paddlefoot55 's review for:

Because You're Mine by Claire Contreras

4.0

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ARC received for an honest review

Ballet, mafia - so many books I have read where these two worlds are entwined (though I will admit it is usaually Russian ballerinas and the Bratva that I have come across) so it was different to have the US mob this time.

Cat and Lorenzo's story to me was, how should I say, a little lost? I don't know how else to describe it. Neither of them had any real goal for their future, no plan for what they were doing - but this could just be me?

It did get better about halfway through the book, and things did start to make sense. I was a bit confuzzled the first half of the book about what it wanted to be - did it want to be a mafia book? A dance book? A romance book? There were so many characters introduced that it took a while to get my head around who they were and what they wanted.

Lorenzo though, he was what kept me ploughing through - even though he also confused me at times.

Ugh, it makes it sound like I didn't like this book at all, but that's not how it is. I did enjoy it, there were just a big confuzzled (like my brain!)

I know with so many characters there must be some set up for more books about these people, and I know I will read them in the future.